Glenn Loury: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Capitalism | Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

The economist and podcaster, ‪@GlennLouryShow‬, discusses his new memoir, "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative".
0:00- Introduction
1:34- Why write a memoir now?
4:17- What is a black conservative?
7:47- Glenn Loury’s background
15:10- Addiction and self destruction
17:00- ‘A hustler and a player’
21:34- Crack, Infidelity, and the remarkable Dr Linda Loury
25:44- Loury’s downfall in the late 80s
28:38- Recovery, self-knowledge, and making amends
36:32- ‘Rise Above It’: a MLM scam with real lessons
40:40- Loury’s career and legacy in Economics
45:08- College students and protests
49:00- Affirmative action and conservatives
52:30- Equality, childhood development, and cultural influences
57:21- The Black Experience and healthy cultural discourse
1:02:22- Immigrants as beacons of hope
reason.com/podcast/2024/06/12...
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My guest today is economist and podcaster Glenn Loury, whose new memoir is titled "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative". Born in 1948 and raised working-class in Chicago's predominantly African American South Side, Loury tells a story of self-invention, ambition, hard work, addiction, and redemption that channels Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Richard Wright's Native Son, Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, and Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom. The first tenured black economist at Harvard, Loury emerged in the 1980s as a ubiquitous commenter on race and class and was offered a post in the Reagan administration. Then a series of scandals involving affairs, arrests, and addiction threatened the end of his personal and professional lives. Late Admissions is an unflinching look at Loury's failures and successes, written by one of the most popular academic presences on KZbin.
#podcast #race #economics #addictionrecovery #interview

[@GlennLouryShow]

Thank you for having on the podcast Nick. I really enjoyed it.

[@quietus13]

Love your podcast and conversations with John McWhorter and other intellectuals!

[@quietus13]

Glenn is a national treasure! Thank you for the interview.

[@shawnnorton2674]

Absolutely love Glenn, his story arc is fascinating and quite inspiring. No doubt about it, Mr. Loury makes the world a better place. Great interview.

[@coltonjohnston1125]

Great interview and I always enjoy Dr. Loury’s conversations. I have been looking forward to the release of his memoir and got a copy for my dad for Father’s Day.

[@Grappapappa]

Glenn is one of the greatest inspirations of my life!

[@Muonium1]

Long time listener of his podcast. He and John McWhorter have together played a not insubstantial part in my recent shift from center-left libertarian to center-right.

[@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069]

There is no such thing as left and right wing.

[@Muonium1]

@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 k

[@jacobstamm]

@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 Seems like one of those “did you know there’s technically no such thing as purple?” factoids. Whatever technicality you’re speaking to, they clearly exist enough to be definable and usable by plenty of people

[@Smithistory]

​@@jacobstamm the myth of left and right. It is a recent book, the authors have given interviews on KZbin. If you are acting in good faith you'll probably agree. In the popular consciousness it is meaningless.

[@barrykochverts4149]

Gosh. This exemplifies what can be learned from listening to couple of guys hunched over fishing rods on a still pond. Thank you.

[@themasterrogerdelgado]

Always a treat to have Nick interview anyone, but I love Mr Loury - been watching his clips with John Mc Whortor (sp?) and enjoying it immensely.

[@sherylbusch5853]

I love their podcast!

[@pjacobsen1000]

Great interview. I've viewed a number of interviews following the release of Late Admissions, but this is one of the best. Nick Gillespie is a really good interviewer.

[@shamsam4]

Great interview. Glenn is a treasure.

[@jackharle1251]

Glen is the most fair fellow that I can imagine.

[@Eliteownage]

much love all!

[@geridannels1701]

Whats the name of the book? I would love to read GL's young life to where he is today. I watch some of his podcasts and like the man.

[@99guspuppet8]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ i envy nick gillespie

[@psikeyhackr6914]

But professional economists cannot say that accounting/finance should have been mandatory in high schools since Sputnik. Even though Adam Smith wrote "read, write and *account* " multiple times in Wealth of Nations. That book is free on the Internet. Search it for yourself. Oh yeah, Adam Smith and Karl Marx never saw a Planned Obsolescence Economy. The depreciation of durable consumer garbage is not relevant to modern economics either.

[@joshgworks]

'And I miss her'.... 'But you asked me about crack cocaine?' Glenn is hilarious.

[@lalithgunaratne1620]

Why cannot be a part of me be in the right and a part of me on the left...we are so complex.. the world is VUCA...and we sit in contradiction in not identified with any - we may have some freedom to sit in tension between the good and the bad person I am..the left and the right I am as a whole brained person...why do we have to be defined so finely? For whose benefit? ❤Just saying...

[@lauram2475]

Such a great thinker, all the more given his lack of artifice. Wow.

[@lostcauselancer333]

Reason’s new motto should be “tales of sex, drugs, and capitalism.”

[@firstandforemost87]

I was once blinkered by libertarian ideology.

[@99guspuppet8]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ i am libertarian addict addicted to freedom

[@rezakarampour6286]

👍

[@omniamericana2172]

Brilliant mind and with allllll going on the country, outside of the country (St Peters...) on the brink of WIII, live streaming a genocide, etc, et al. And yet THE #1 issue of Black scholars is critiquing Black ppl. With this trope of being an outlier.... feigning as though mavericks, when "Black Conservative" is NOT a new thing and has a long legacy.

[@epi_sto_letes]

I thought Glenn was a communitarian.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

1 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

2 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@wolfsden3]

This guy was dry and uninteresting. I've seen better interviews on grinder apps

[@zarbins]

Troll harder.